D. H. Lawrence's Travel Writing -- Reading and Discussion Questions

Students in English 171, Sages and Satirists, Brown University, 2002

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Twilight in Italy

• Lawrence and Thoreau: Opposing Mechanical Modern Life
• Judging A Book By Its Cover
• Lawrence and Repetition
• Lawrence and the People He Meets
• Love and Bondage: Lawrence's tired observations
• Nature and the Machine
• Sensuous language and abstraction in "The Crucifix Across the Mountains"
• the elevation of environment in Lawrence
• Sarcasm vs. Satire from a Relativistic Point of View
• Lawrence and Didion: Two Paths to the Same Destination
• D.H. Lawrence's Erotics of The Dance
• Sermonizing in Italy
• Entering D.H. Lawrence's World of Spinners and Monks
• The Convergence of Opposites in Lawrence
• D.H. Lawrence and Language
• A Visual Journey through Lawrence's San Gaudenzio
• D.H. Lawrence and the Battle of the Sexes
• Metaphor and Abstraction in D. H. Lawrence's Twilight in Italy
• Lawrence and Capitalism in Italy
• Does Lawrence's "The Dance"-- to use his own words-- "only care about the emotion?"
• Dancing with D.H. Lawrence

Etruscan Places

• "Cerveteri": a time travel narrative
• Inventing the Etruscans
• Romance and the Etruscan
• Imagined Nostalgia
• The Opening of "Cerveteri" in D.H. Lawrence's Etruscan Places
• Conversation Construction in Lawrence
• Science of History on Holiday

Related Materials

• Lending Thoughts and Imitating Voices: Narrative Distance and Characterization in the Nonfiction of Wolfe and Lawrence

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